Academic Career
- Studies in religious sciences at the African Islamic University, Khartoum, Sudan, and with private scholars (2004–2006)
- Bachelor (BA)Arabic studies and economics at Hochschule Bremen, Germany (2006–2011)
- Academic year abroad: one semester at the University of Alexandria, Egypt; internships in Sudan and the United Arab Emirates (2008–2009)
- Master (MA) in Islamic Theology at the University of Münster, Germany (2011–2013)
- Research Associate (PhD student) at the University of Hamburg, Academy of World Religions (AWR, 2013–2017); Doctorate abtained 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Lejla Demiri et al.(magna cum laude)
- Visiting Scholar at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (MCAS), University of Hamburg (2018–2019)
- Acting Professor at the University of Hamburg, Academy of World Religions (today Department of Religions) (2021–2022)
- Research Associate (Post-Doctoral) at the Center for Islamic Theology (ZITh), Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen (2020–2024)
- Lecturer in Islamic Theology at the University of Hamburg (Academy of World Religions / Department of Religions), with short interruptions (2015–2025)
Lectures and Contributions (Selected, Chronological)
- University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Islamic Studies (in cooperation with the Center for Islamic Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt): “A Study of the Commentary of Aḥmad Ibn ʿAǧība (d. 1224/1809) on the Teachings of Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh al-Sakandarī (d. 709/1309)” (Islamic Studies and Islamic Theology in Europe Today: Challenges and Perspectives), 02.08.2014
- University of Tübingen: “The Allegorical Contemplation (al-tafsīr bi-l-ishāra) in the Teachings of Aḥmad Ibn ʿAjība and ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī” (Symposium: Early Modern Trends in Islamic Theology. ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī and his Network of Scholarship), 06.09.2014
- Missionsakademie, Center for Mission and Ecumenism, Reading seminar: Interreligious Quran Reading, Nordkirche weltweit, 12.11.2015
- University of Tübingen and the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Panel participant, concluding discussion at the conference “Mysticism and Politics”, 21–23.10.2016
- Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (MCAS), University of Hamburg, with Daniel Davies, Dialectical Evening, : “Al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) and Maimonides (d. 1204) on the Simile of the Water Clock – Knowledge and Negative Theology”, 22.10.2019
- University of Bonn: “From Wisdom to Academia: The Development of Early Commentaries on the Wisdoms of Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh al-Sakandarī” (Conference: Commentaries Read Horizontally: Towards a Sociological Approach to the Study of Commentaries in the Islamicate World), 25–27.10.2019
- Evangelische Akademie Bad Boll, Mysticism Conference: “‘You are this thought.’ A Reflection on Rūmī’s Understanding of the Eternal in the Transient” (Panel and Lecture, Beyond the YOU – Prayer and Mystical Immersion), 03–04.12.2022
- Inalco, Paris: “Islam: plural approaches” & MAG-Renew project: “The Faqīh and Voice of the Shādhiliyya: Aḥmad Ibn ʿAjība (d. 1808) and the Ṭarīqa Darqāwiyya from the Viewpoint of the Religious Sciences”, 02.04.2025
Reviewing Activities
- ZR&I – Zeitschrift für Recht und Islam / Journal of Law & Islam
- HIAS – Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study
